[Mailman-Users] Host name sent in email confirmation wrong

[Bill Moseley]

At 05:59 PM 11/28/01 -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
>So you changed it in your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file but did you go
>into the web-admin and change it on the General Options page for the lists
>that already exist?
>   Host name this list prefers:  mardy.hank.org

Nope, that's what I meant when I said:

> The list settings have not changes (they still say mardy.hank.org).

Should have been

The list's settings have not changes (they still say mardy.hank.org).

I assume the settings are in the .db file for each list:

> strings config.db | grep hank.org
http://hank.org/mailman/s
moseley at hank.orgi
moseley at hank.orgs
moseley at hank.orgi
mardy.hank.org0

Hum.






>
>Jon Carnes
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Moseley" <moseleymm at hank.org>
>To: <mailman-users at python.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:49 PM
>Subject: [Mailman-Users] Host name sent in email confirmation wrong
>
>
>> I have my lists all setup to use the full name of the host.
>>
>>   DEFAULT_HOST_NAME   = 'mardy.hank.org'
>>
>> This is the same host as simply hank.org.  I just tried to subscribe to a
>> list, and the confirm mail came like this:
>>
>>   Reply-To: test-request at hank.org
>>
>> The list settings have not changes (they still say mardy.hank.org).
>>
>> The problem is I have all mail to @hank.org to one address in sendmail's
>> virtusertable, so it needs to go to mardy.hank.org to not get bypassed by
>> my virtusertable entry.
>>
>> So, the question is, why did mailman set the reply to to simply @hank.org
>> instead of @mardy.hank.org?  What settings should I look at?
>>
>>
>> Bill Moseley
>> mailto:moseley at hank.org
>>
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>
>

Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley at hank.org